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Measuring TV ratings – the duel between TNS Media and MIC

VietNamNet Bridge - While tens of television stations are willing to pay billions of dong to measure their viewers’ habits, there are only two service providers.

Collections by young designers at Vietnam Spring-Summer Fashion Week 2017

VietNamNet Bridge – Miss Vietnam 2010 Ngoc Han and young fashion designers showed off their latest collections at the Vietnam Spring-Summer Week 2017, which took place in Hanoi last week.

Flooding remains severe in HCMC despite huge investment

 HCMC is struggling with worsening flood issues despite huge spending on anti-flood projects over the years, said a recent conclusion signed by chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong on illegal land reclamation on the city’s drainage systems.  

Cracking down on tax evasion

 Significant changes in the newly-released draft decree on transfer pricing and tax erosion avoidance is grabbing companies’ attention on the matter of compliance.

Bomb found in residential area safely disposed

 VietNamNet Bridge – This morning, Da Lat City’s Military Steering Committee (MSC) successfully disposed of a 320-kg bomb that had been found in a residential area. The bomb was discovered on October 2

Opera singer wins second prize at ASEAN Vocal Competition in Singapore

 VietNamNet Bridge – Soprano Pham Khanh Ngoc of the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) won the second prize at the SLO- ASEAN Vocal Competition in Singapore last weekend.

VN developing space technology

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has made achievements in space technology applications, and laboratories nationwide were vital in developing technology, according to a seminar report given on Friday. 

Shakespeare lives on in film

VietNamNet Bridge – Movie buffs will get the chance to watch the 1968 version of Romeo & Juliet at an event in Ha Noi and HCM City on October 8-29. 

Botox shots little better than nerve stimulation for incontinence

 Botox injections may be slightly better at reducing urinary incontinence in some older women than InterStim, an implanted bladder control device, results of a U.S. trial suggest.

Beautiful Vietnam through Rehahn’s lens

VietNamNet Bridge - French photographer Rehahn has shot wonderful pictures of stunning scenery in Vietnam, his second home.

The most beautiful Dong Son bronze drum

 VietNamNet Bridge - Ngoc Lu I bronze drum is a masterpiece made in the heyday of the Dong Son culture.

Bagel, pretzel show twists of Nobel Prize-winning work in physics

 Three British-born scientists won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for revealing unusual states of matter, leading to advances in electronics that could aid researchers trying to develop quantum computers.

Google takes on Apple, Amazon with new hardware push

 Alphabet Inc's Google on Tuesday announced a new "Pixel" smartphone and a suite of new consumer electronics products for the home, planting itself firmly in the hardware business and challenging Apple Inc's iPhone

Venture funds do small amount of business in Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge - About 20 foreign venture funds exist in Vietnam, but they have only representative offices and have yet to set up funds.

Threat of 'hard Brexit' pulls down Wall Street

 U.S. stocks dropped on Tuesday as investors fretted about Britain's exit from the European Union and the prospect of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike in coming months.

Quang Ba night flower market

 VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi’s Quang Ba Flower Market attracts a large number of customers as well as tourists who admire the diversity of flowers.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 5/9

Hanoi declares tax debt firms, Vietnam needs to build food brands: experts, German investors shift attention to Vietnam, 2016 wages of apparel laborers up 12%, Firms, banks to ink contracts worth VND90 trillion

Ha Giang announces 21 free wifi hotspots

Besides the city of Ha Giang, free wifi transmitters will also be set up in 21 locations in Ha Giang province, including the most popular tourist sites such as the Lung Cu flagpole, Dong Van town, Ma Pi Leng in October.

Petrotimes chief editor dismissed

After being dismissed from the Chief Editor position, Mr. Nguyen Nhu Phong’s press card will be revoked and his online newspaper will be locked for three months, under a decision made by the Ministry of Information and Communications on Tuesday.

Over 200 tons of fish die in West Lake

VietNamNet Bridge – At a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning, Hanoi’s Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung reported that about 200 tons of fish died in Hanoi’s West Lake in the past three days.